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Entry: Collective Nouns - Birds - A12588636
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This is a comprehensive entry on collective nouns, and is one of a set of seven entries including Miscellaneous (A12590985), Mythology (A12590679), Fish (A12590561), Birds (A12588636), Insects (A12586737), Flora (A12586692) and Animals(A12586133)>
A12588636 - Collective Nouns - Birds
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 5, 2007
Again, I think this needs more general information on the idea of collective nouns, and more detail.
"A brace" is a collective noun meaning specifically two. It can be applied to any game bird.
"A raft" is a group of birds floating on the sea.
A12588636 - Collective Nouns - Birds
Mina Posted Nov 6, 2007
I hate to do this but I don't think an identical introduction followed by a list is really a suitable EG entry - I can't comment on the content of the list itself, but to make these enties work I'd suggest that you include a line or two about each species that you mention. That way you can get some links in if there are EGE about those species, and there's more to the entries that a list.
If there are 'dodgy' items you need to either leave them out, or perhaps go into why they are doubtful.
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